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		<title>Why the I Ching Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adele Aldridge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by Katya Walter, PhD From her book, Tao of Chaos Patterns, Chapter 13, Section 5  (ebook) This TOE suggests that the deep-level structure of primal space, time, matter, and energy is fractal. A source code turns this primal foursome into a pair of polarized pairs: space and time become the universal carrier pair, [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3 style="padding-left: 60px;">Guest post by Katya Walter, PhD</h3>
<p>From her book, <em><strong>Tao of Chaos Patterns</strong></em>, Chapter 13, Section 5  (ebook)</p>
<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-2172" style="border: 2px solid black; margin: 10px;" title="Katya Walter-cover" src="http://www.ichingmeditations.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/kWalter-cover.jpg" alt="kWalter cover Why the I Ching Works" width="288" height="438" />This TOE suggests that the deep-level structure of primal space, time, matter, and energy is fractal. A source code turns this primal foursome into a pair of polarized pairs: space and time become the universal carrier pair, and matter and energy become the universal contents pair.</p>
<p>Space and time stay dependable in their task of containerizing matter and energy. These containerized contents continually flux in their specific details. Old configurations of matter and energy decay in the container of space and time, but then morph into emerging new events.</p>
<p>Mind itself, above and below the Planck level, helps shape the thrust of this process. Information crosses the central threshold of the Planck level. This threshold separates the two conjoined twins of a double bubble universe. Each twin bubble has its own dependable 4D space/time container that holds its matter/energy contents with evolving specific details.</p>
<p>The conjoined twins also interrelate constantly across the Planck level. They carry on a continual conversation at the Planck level. To do so, they use a fractal code based on vertical and horizontal period 3 windows. A shorthand version of this code exists in the I Ching’s trigrams and hexagrams, which are holographically resonant to reality itself.</p>
<p>Our universe consists of both twins together, It is holographically resonant and exhibits chaotic flow in a complex, non-repeating pattern. This means that you may be able to predict the general fractal carrier form of a chaos pattern—but not its specific contents. A minor event in one place can have huge, seemingly unrelated consequences elsewhere.</p>
<p>A modern weather forecast is rather like a message from the ancient I Ching oracle. Both the weather forecast and the I Ching message speak more about the fractal carrier form of a qualitative dynamic rather than the quantitative load of its specific details. The ancient Chinese enshrined this “butterfly effect” in the saying, “I wave my left hand, and the whole world moves.”</p>
<p>Likewise, the ancient Chinese believed that consulting the I Ching oracle helps you foresee and weather the emotions of life better. It won’t predict the quantitative details of an emotional hail storm or tornado or drought or rainbow that’s upcoming, only its general qualitative dynamic for your life.</p>
<p>In both cases, a forecast on either physical or emotional weather, you’re provided with a basic outline of the dynamic in its fractal form, but the unique details must be filled by living through it as you make your free will choices. The advantage here is that at least you now have a heads-up.</p>
<p>Perhaps you scoff, thinking, “How can consulting some old oracle possibly give me a true answer?”</p>
<p>Well, consider this possibility: a hexagram answer embodies the principle of co-chaos patterning generated between domains. It succinctly describes the dynamic of an event occurring in mattergy over space and time, yet it still lets you fill in the specific details with your own free will. It even describes this dynamic using both a verbal analogy and a mathematical shorthand.</p>
<p>This TOE suggests that the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching resonate with the universal source code. That cryptic shorthand reflects the fractal dynamic that is embedded in the great hologram of reality. Each hexagram is a miniature model for this paradigm.</p>
<p>Each hexagram holds a pair of trigrams. Each trigram has three lines or “3 dimensions” that indicate a specific dynamic organizing its own domain, above or below, on a p-tree. A hidden bond or 4th dimension in each domain attracts the two trigrams to each other. Together they develop a co-chaos pattern that bonds the two trigrams across domains.</p>
<p>This is a miniature version of what happens to our double bubble universe with four dimensions in each domain, above and below the Planck level—plus 4 more tiny dimensions that create the attraction hidden right inside the Planck level.<br />
What a gift from the master code! For more on this, see the third volume of this series, Double Bubble Universe.</p>
<p>Tapping into the I Ching gives you a way to get an insight on the fractal dynamics of our universe. It helps you perceive and adjust your own fit in it. Your I Ching answer is complex and nuanced. Understanding it encourages developing a subtle, associative mindset.</p>
<p>An I Ching answer is a far cry indeed from the mere flat, dogmatic, binary right or wrong, yes or no, that we have come to expect on a pop quiz and we currently demand in a law court. Learning to understand the I Ching is necessarily an experiential voyage into exploring your own life and psyche.</p>
<p>This exercise is pumping iron for the subtle body. It resides in the universal patterning and will reside there it long after your physical body is gone.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Katya Walter has a Ph.D. with an interdisciplinary emphasis from the University of Texas at Austin. She spent 5 years of post-doctoral study at the Jung Institute of Zurich, and a year of post-study in China. She taught in colleges and universities in the USA and abroad for sixteen years before focusing on writing and lecturing. She has presented numerous workshops on the I Ching, Chaos Theory, Synchronicity, and Dreams in the United States and Europe. Katya is author of the Touching God&#8217;s TOE series of books. She also authored an accompanying handbook called Dream Mail &#8211; designed for contemplating the deeper structure of dreams. It discusses the fractal messages that are carried in the symbolism of dreams and how to interpret dreams for daily life.</p>
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		<title>Which Came First, Feng Shui or the I-Ching?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adele Aldridge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a guest post by Kartar Diamond. She not only writes about the I Ching and Feng Shui as it relates to the Trigrams, she includes her synchronicity of asking the I Ching a question. The image I include is one from my book, I Ching Prescriptions, showing the &#8220;Pre-heaven&#8221; and the &#8220;Post-heaven&#8221; arrangement [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">I have a guest post by Kartar Diamond. She not only writes about the I Ching and Feng Shui as it relates to the Trigrams, she includes her synchronicity of asking the I Ching a question.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The image I include is one from my book,<a href="http://www.amazon.com/I-Ching-Prescriptions-Adele-Aldridge/dp/1884178251/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1311191662&amp;sr=1-1" target="_blank"><em><strong> I Ching Prescriptions,</strong></em></a> showing the &#8220;Pre-heaven&#8221; and the &#8220;Post-heaven&#8221; arrangement of the trigrams that Kartar Diamond discusses in the article.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Which Came First, Feng Shui or the I-Ching?</h2>
<p style="text-align: left;">You may be familiar with the practice of Feng Shui and some of the symbolism associated with the eight Trigrams. Each &#8220;trigram&#8221; is associated with a part of the body, colors, an element, a family member, and a direction. These trigrams are each symbolized with three lines. The word &#8220;tri-gram&#8221; means &#8220;three lines.&#8221; The lines can be broken or solid and in a certain order to depict the unique trigram and direction.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.ichingmeditations.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Ching_chakras_trigrams.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2081" style="margin: 10px;" title="I Ching meditation chakras - trigrams" src="http://www.ichingmeditations.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Ching_chakras_trigrams.jpg" alt="Ching chakras trigrams Which Came First, Feng Shui or the I Ching?" width="451" height="452" /></a>For instance, the Qian Trigram is three solid lines stacked on top of each other and associated with the direction of Northwest (post-heaven sequence) and the father in the family structure. The Kun trigram is three broken lines, symbolic of the direction of Southwest (post-heaven sequence) and the image of a mother.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">What the heck is &#8220;post-heaven sequence?&#8221; Some people reading this know what this means, but for the lay person let&#8217;s just say that there are two versions of the trigrams in relation to the directions associated with them. We have something called the &#8220;pre-heaven sequence&#8221; which is used for different types of insight in a Feng Shui analysis and it is the more &#8220;obscure&#8221; arrangement of the eight trigrams when a person studies these theories.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">These same three-lined symbols are grouped in pairs to form &#8220;hexagrams.&#8221; And it is the 64 hexagrams of the I-Ching which are symbolic of profound and mystical advice that adherents seek when they turn to the I-Ching for inspiration. We can say that the I-Ching, (also spelled Yi Jing) is an ancient Oracle or Book of Divination closely related to the fundamentals of Feng Shui. There is even a ring on the Chinese Feng Shui compass that identifies the 64 hexagrams.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">When I was first trying to decide if Feng Shui was really my destined professional calling, I threw the coins to do the simple calculations on the energy assigned to the timing of my question. The answer I got from the I-Ching? I got hexagram #55 which translates as &#8220;Feng.&#8221; It is the pairing of the two trigrams: Thunder above (Zhen Trigram) and Fire Below (Li trigram). It was more than ironic. This might be the equivalent of wondering what you should do with your life and randomly opening up a book to a Chapter Title that says &#8220;You Are Already Doing What You Are Meant to Do.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">You may assume the trigrams and the I-Ching are irrelevant to modern times, but early on in my studies of Chinese metaphysics, an acquaintance sent me a book on the trigrams in relation to DNA. We don&#8217;t know who or how many people originally figured out these mathematical correlations, but they surely happened over long periods of time and after meticulous observation of the cycles of nature. More theories about the trigrams are continuing to evolve in modern applications and interpretations.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Eight Trigram theory is quite practical and predictable and there are many applications that can be used to help people. For example, the Zhen trigram is associated with the direction of east and the eldest son. If a house is missing the east sector of the floor plan, it can make it harder for a couple living there to conceive a baby boy. If a family moves into a house with a missing east sector, the eldest son in the family may have some struggles or some thing wrong with his health. If the east sector of a house has something wrong with it or in ill-repair, like a crack in the foundation, this could also harm the eldest son in the family. The more you learn about the trigrams, the more you will see them as a mirror to our lives.</p>
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Kartar Diamond is a full time classically trained consultant and author of numerous books, ebooks, a DVD, teleseminars, and an on-line case study program. Visit Kartar&#8217;s website at http://www.FengShuiSolutions.net for details of all her professional services and learning tools.</address>
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		<title>Prescription for Hexagram 58, The Joyous</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 16:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Thomas posted a comment asking if a symptom could guide him to one of the I Ching Prescriptions. When I wrote these Prescriptions I was thinking of the 64 I Ching hexagrams with their ancient collective wisdom one could use for guidance for the situation one needed at the moment. The word symptom generally [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">Yesterday Thomas posted a comment asking if a symptom could guide him to one of the <em><strong>I Ching Prescriptions.</strong></em> When I wrote these Prescriptions I was thinking of the 64 I Ching hexagrams with their ancient collective wisdom one could use for guidance for the situation one needed at the moment. The word symptom generally refers to physical ailments which is when we usually get a prescription. And now there are many people taking mood altering prescriptions for depression and anxiety.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Thomas asked if the I Ching could deal with a broken heart which is an emotional &#8220;ailment.&#8221; I immediately thought of hexagram 23, <em>Splitting Apart,</em> because that is when I have experienced a broken heart. Because the I Ching is always a subjective experience, depending on the person seeking the guidance, I then realized that one may experience a broken heart from events in situations other than <em>Splitting Apart.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I will post here the Prescription for <em>Splitting Apart</em> in a jpg format so the reader gets an idea of how the Prescriptions look in their &#8220;pill&#8221; form. If anyone experienced a broken heart from another situation, let me know and I will check to see if the Prescription makes sense and post it. This is interesting research.</p>
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<p>An excerpt from the Introduction in the book:</p>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">What are I Ching Prescriptions?</h3>
<p style="text-align: left;">The I Ching Prescriptions are a different way of working with the I Ching. Many people wonder how could anyone take seriously an answer to a question arrived at by tossing coins. For this reason they decide that the I Ching is not for them. You don&#8217;t have to believe in synchronicity. You don&#8217;t have to take the time to understand the poetic symbolic language of the I Ching. When people dismiss the I Ching because it relies on random chance they miss out on the philosophy embedded within it. A philosophy, based on nature that has survived for thousands of years has a message worth pondering.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I wrote this book for people who are not drawn to the more complex translations that often require one to read the responses like one would a dream. Not everyone responds to symbolic language. I wanted to make the Prescriptions direct and easy to use, just like taking a pill might be. I don’t know how an aspirin works. I just know that it does. This does not mean I do not appreciate all the other I Ching interpretations. I get benefit from them. I love symbols, poetry and symbolic language. If I didn’t I would not have been consulting the I Ching for so many years.</p>
<h3>Choose Your Changes</h3>
<p style="text-align: left;">When consulting the I Ching as a prescription, instead of asking a question in the traditional coin throwing approach, decide what issue in your life that you either want to deal with or are now involved in.</p>
<ul>
<li> Pick your prescription. Decide what prescription you need. Look up the prescription distillation in this book, read it and see how the advice applies to your life.</li>
<li> Each I Ching prescription has seven parts to it; the general meaning at the top and the six phases written from the bottom up. These lines are written on top of the image of a tinted color of the trigrams that create the hexagram.</li>
<li> There are seven paragraphs of counsel for each hexagram prescription that can be used — one for each day of the week. Focus on or meditate on the prescription you have chosen. Keep a record over the next seven days as you follow each step. Write down what happens for you in the process.</li>
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		<title>In Memory of José Argüelles: Celebrating Earth Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adele Aldridge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As one of the originators of the Earth Day concept, José Argüelles founded the first Whole Earth Festival in 1970, held at U.C. Davis, California where he was teaching at the time. José Argüelles died in Australia on March 23, 2011. I learned of the death on March 27th when I saw the post on [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">As one of the originators of the Earth Day concept, José Argüelles founded the first Whole Earth Festival in 1970, held at U.C. Davis, California where he was teaching at the time.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">José Argüelles died in Australia on March 23, 2011. I learned of the death on March 27th when I saw the post on Rob and Trish <a href="http://www.synchrosecrets.com/synchrosecrets/" target="_blank">MacGregor&#8217;s synchronicity blog</a>. I had been in the middle of writing the last Chapter, an <em>Afterword</em> for my new book, <em><strong>I Ching Prescriptions</strong></em>, when I read this shocking new of José&#8217;s death. This<em> Afterword</em> includes a discussion of my I Ching reading with all six lines changing as it related to completing this book, as well as a dream about José just 4 days before he died.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I first met José shortly after he and his wife Miriam had published their beautiful book, <em><strong>Mandala</strong></em>. I had painted a series of Mandalas in 1968 but at that time I had no idea these circular paintings had a name. I began reading the works of Carl Jung and found his reference to Mandalas and discovered that what I was painting had a name as well as a psychological purpose. Since I was painting Mandalas I decided to write a paper about them for an art history class. I could find only one reference book on the subject of Mandalas in my library in 1968. There was no Internet or Wikipedia to make research easy. So four years later when I saw the Argüelles&#8217; book, <em><strong>Mandala</strong></em> in the front window of a book store on West 57th street in New York City I exclaimed,<em> &#8220;Where was this book when I needed it?&#8221;</em> I ran into the store and bought the book. I wrote to José and Miriam about the possibility of doing a workshop on Mandalas for Magic Circle Press. That never happened but I subsequently met José in early 1973 in his mother-in-law&#8217;s apartment when he was on a trip to New York.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I have an old photocopy of an article called, <em>Compute and Evolve</em> by José Argüelles. The re-print states that it originated in, <em>Main Currents in Modern Thought , Jan-Feb 1969</em>. The subtile of the article is, <em>Some reflections on the I-Ching as a prelude to a post-scientific system.</em> I was just beginning my I Ching journey so finding a person who created and wrote about Mandalas, art and the I Ching was a nourishing gift for my psyche.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Five more years passed before I would encounter José again. I had moved to California where I figured the intellectual atmosphere would be more in tune with my interests. I was not disappointed. On January 24,1978 I found myself in a two week colloquium at The Union Graduate School where José would be my core faculty working towards a Ph.D. in <em>Art and the Personal Symbolic Process.</em> January 24th was also José&#8217;s 39th birthday.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">My relationship with José began before I ever met him through his art and writing. He reflected in his creative projects the embodiment of my own interests. José&#8217;s knowledge of the I Ching would sometimes pop up in mundane situations. For example, I remember a time in a building at the Oakland air port. José was on his way home to Boulder. We were in an elevator where there was a glass box on the wall with a big tortoise shell exhibited inside. José pointed to the display and said, <em>&#8220;Adele, hexagram twenty-seven, line one.&#8221;</em> Only another I Ching geek would know that he was referring to the hexagram of <em>Providing Nourishment</em> and the line that says, <em>&#8220;You let your magic tortoise go.&#8221; </em>And no one other than another I Chinger would even want to know this form of &#8220;<em>magical thinking.</em>&#8220;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I came from a family that either ignored anything that truly interested me or worse, they put me in their negative camp they referred to as &#8220;magical thinking.&#8221; No matter how I was defined, these attitudes were less than nourishing. So José, just by his existence, was a validation that I needed, enjoyed and appreciated. Long live José Argüelles!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">If anyone reading this posting about José knows of any one who studied with him, please pass on this link. It would be wonderful if José Argüelles&#8217;s former learners post something about what creative project they worked on with José or anything they would like to share.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I am posting a link for a <a href="http://www.adeleart.com/iChingPrescriptions(99-191).pdf"><strong>free download</strong></a> of that Afterword I wrote that tells about my amazing I Ching reading where I had six changing lines and issues of synchronicity, dreams, and José.</p>
<div id="attachment_2001" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 215px"><a href="http://www.ichingmeditations.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Jose_obit.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2001" title="José Argüelles" src="http://www.ichingmeditations.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Jose_obit-205x300.jpg" alt="Jose obit 205x300 In Memory of José Argüelles: Celebrating Earth Day" width="205" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">This picture is one found on several of José&#39;s obituary notices.</p></div>
<div id="attachment_2002" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 243px"><a href="http://www.ichingmeditations.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Jose01.81.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-2002   " title="José Argüelles, January, 1981" src="http://www.ichingmeditations.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Jose01.81-818x1024.jpg" alt="Jose01.81 818x1024 In Memory of José Argüelles: Celebrating Earth Day" width="233" height="293" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">José Argüelles, January, 1981 at Adele Aldridge&#39;s Ph.D. graduation.</p></div>
<div id="attachment_2007" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 514px"><a href="http://www.ichingmeditations.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/10.13.85.Jill_.Adele_.Jose2_.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-2007 " title="10.13.85. Jill Adele Jose" src="http://www.ichingmeditations.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/10.13.85.Jill_.Adele_.Jose2_.jpg" alt="10.13.85.Jill .Adele .Jose2  In Memory of José Argüelles: Celebrating Earth Day" width="504" height="434" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">October 13, 1985 - Joan Halifax, (?) Jill Caire, José Argüelles, Adele Aldridge at Adrian Ravarou&#39;s PhD graduation in Ojai CA</p></div>
<div id="attachment_2005" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 474px"><a href="http://www.ichingmeditations.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/AdeleJose-01.81.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2005   " title="Adele &amp; Jose 01.81" src="http://www.ichingmeditations.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/AdeleJose-01.81-300x224.jpg" alt="AdeleJose 01.81 300x224 In Memory of José Argüelles: Celebrating Earth Day" width="464" height="345" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Adele Aldridge, Jose Arguelles, January, 1981 at Adele&#39;s PhD graduation</p></div>
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		<title>The Sketch Book Project and I Ching Prescriptions</title>
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		<dc:creator>Adele Aldridge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year I entered an exhibition called, The Sketch Book Project sponsored by The Brooklyn Art Library of New York. I have been working on a new book, soon to be released, called I Ching Prescriptions. So I decided to make a small black and white version of the book for my submission to [...]
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Earlier this year I entered an exhibition called, <strong><em>The Sketch Book Projec</em></strong>t sponsored by <a href="http://www.arthousecoop.com/projects/sketchbookproject/" target="_blank"><strong>The Brooklyn Art Library of New York.</strong></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I have been working on a new book, soon to be released, called <em><strong>I Ching Prescriptions</strong></em>. So I decided to make a small black and white version of the book for my submission to the project. The exhibition is now open to the public. To my dismay at the thought of anyone ever seeing my work I found out that 28,839 artists from 94 countries contributed to the project. The exhibition began in Brooklyn and will travel to Austin, Texas, San Francisco, Californina, Portland, Maine, Atlanta Georgia, Chicago, Illinois, Washington, DC and Winter Park, Florida.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">After the tour, all sketchbooks will enter into the permanent collection of <strong>The Brooklyn Art Library</strong>, where they will be barcoded and available for the public to view. Participants in the exhibition can choose to receive an email if anyone checks out their book telling you that some one actually looked at your book. How cool is that? But when I saw the numbers of books entered I gave up hope that anyone would find mine. However, to my delight I did get such a notice.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The exhibition has received a lot of news coverage. I have even seen a video news report on this from Japan which you can see here:<a href="http://www.fujisankei.com/video_library/trend/sketchbook.html" target="_blank"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1979" title="Japan sketchBook" src="http://www.ichingmeditations.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/sketchBook01.jpg" alt="sketchBook01 The Sketch Book Project and I Ching Prescriptions" width="432" height="307" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">There is also a page about the show In the in the Feb 27, 2011 issue of <a href="http://nymag.com/arts/art/features/sketchbook-art-2011-3/" target="_blank"><strong>New York Magazine.</strong></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Meanwhile, the larger, color version of <em><strong>I Ching Prescriptions </strong></em>will be published soon. Stay tuned.</p>
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		<title>How to Use Your I Ching Record Book</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the I Ching Record Book — Suggestions for How to Use Your I Ching Record Book You don&#8217;t always need to ask a question. You might let the I Ching tell you what you need to know right now. Start by noting your inquiry by writing down the response to your  hexagram. You might [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From the I Ching Record Book —</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Suggestions for How to Use Your I Ching Record Book<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1870" title="DNA I Ching" src="http://www.ichingmeditations.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/DNA_Ching2.png" alt="DNA Ching2 How to Use Your I Ching Record Book" width="183" height="712" /></h2>
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<li style="text-align: left;">You don&#8217;t always need to ask a question. You might let the I Ching tell you what you need to know right now.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"> Start by noting your inquiry by writing down the response to your  hexagram. You might use one of the suggested questions in this  book.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"> Don&#8217;t be vague. Be as specific as you can with your question.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"> Katya Walter, author of <em><strong>&#8220;Tao of Chaos&#8221;</strong></em> says: <em>&#8220;Don&#8217;t ask a yes or no binary question. Instead ask an analog question &#8211; one that can give you a 360 degree range of possible answers. Think of it like going into Baskin Robins with a world of possible tastes.&#8221;</em></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"> Don&#8217;t ask a question when you already know the answer.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"> Remember that I Ching is best thought of as advice coming from an ancient and very wise source. Some people say to think of the I Ching as a person one might consult. I think of I Ching as calling on my DNA to guide me. I believe that the key to how the I Ching works is found in and controlled by DNA. We are all connected to each other.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"> Write down your answer on the corresponding hexagram page where you can keep a record of when you received this response and your related comments.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"> An advantage of having I Ching records in an e-book format is when you do an I Ching reading for another person you can print and give them notes on the appropriate page.</li>
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<p style="text-align: left;">I find that keeping a record of my I Ching questions helpful. Sometimes the answers I get are very obvious as to their meaning but at other times I think, &#8220;<em>What is that about?&#8221; </em>Or, <em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think so.&#8221;</em> Or, <em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t like that answer.&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I experience the I Ching like I do dreams. They are both symbolic and often mysterious in meaning. In both instances, if I keep track and look back after some time, the meaning becomes clear. A simple example of this is when I ask my New Year question, <em>&#8220;What will most characterize this coming year for me?&#8221;</em> At the beginning of the year it is impossible to tell what will unfold during the entire year. I like getting a hint of what may be ahead. Sometimes I am surprised by what seemed like a weird hexagram to receive for the year but by the end of the year the response fits. I also keep a record for personal research of the I Ching, always testing to see if and how it works.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have created a Free PDF I Ching Record Book for keeping a record of I Ching questions and responses. You can find it in my Resource section of Special Places on the right. The I Ching Record Book Includes: A page for each of the 64 hexagrams to record your I Ching responses from [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have created a Free PDF <em><strong>I Ching Record Book</strong></em> for keeping a record of I Ching questions and responses. You can find it in my Resource section of Special Places on the right.</p>
<h2>The <em><strong>I Ching Record Book </strong></em>Includes:</h2>
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<li style="text-align: left;">A page for each of the 64 hexagrams to record your I Ching responses  from the questions asked. By being able to print out pages as you need  them you can easily add as many for the same hexagram as is necessary.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Work Sheet for I Ching Questions.<a href="http://www.ichingmeditations.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/ChingBinder_Front.png"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1852" title="I Ching Binder" src="http://www.ichingmeditations.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/ChingBinder_Front.png" alt="ChingBinder Front I Ching Record Book" width="254" height="371" /></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Interactive color chart for identifying hexagrams.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Black and white chart for identifying hexagrams &#8211; not interactive.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">I Ching circular chart that can also be ordered as a large poster.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Chart listing all hexagrams to check off the name and date of an I Ching response.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"> Black and white chart with Chinese characters.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Two I Ching font charts.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Suggestions for <strong>how to ask</strong> the I Ching a question.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Suggestions for questions you might ask.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Instructions for the coin method of asking a question.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Included, by permission, the appendix from Dr. Katya Walter&#8217;s e-book, <em><strong>Double Bubble Universe.</strong></em> This chapter shows an example of her experience asking the I Ching a question as well as another method of asking a question as an alternative to using either the coins or yarrow sticks.</li>
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<h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;">Review: <em><strong>Divination: Sacred Tools for Reading the Mind of God<br />
</strong></em>by Paul O&#8217;Brien, Visionary Networks Press</span></h4>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;">I first came across the name of Paul O&#8217;Brian years ago when I was living in Sausalito, California and discovered his first software for the <em><strong>I Ching</strong> </em>called, <em><strong>Synchronicity.</strong></em> I bought his later illustrated version, <em><strong>Oracle of Changes</strong></em>, on CD which no longer works on my MAC operating system. I have always wondered why Paul didn&#8217;t update that version, but while reading this book, <em><strong>Divination: Sacred Tools for Reading the Mind of God</strong></em>, I cruised around his website, Tarot.com and saw a big section on using <span style="color: #000000;">the <strong>I Ching</strong></span></span> <span style="color: #000000;">there which perhaps replaces the need for a CD edition.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #000000;">I begin my review by saying that the title of the book hooked me before I had it in my hand. I had not thought of Divination as being a sacred tool for reading the mind of God. Once said, how logical! In the past when doing <strong><em>I Ching</em> </strong>readings for people, I more than once encountered people of various religious beliefs that had a prejudice about the <em><strong>I Ching,</strong></em> assuming it was something that went against their religion and what ever their &#8220;God&#8221; is. The Introduction chapter for the O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s book begins with,</span> <em><span style="color: #0000ff;">&#8220;Divination is controversial.</span> . . &#8221; </em>and continues with a history of divination and how it was used and viewed by ancient religions. Since my <strong><em>I Ching</em></strong> work and this Blog is called, <em><strong>I Ching Meditations</strong></em>, I resonated with his sentence, <em>&#8220;<span style="color: #0000ff;">Authentic divination is more like a form of meditation and prayer than predicting the future. . . </span></em><span style="color: #0000ff;">and . . . <em>Divination is a two-way conversation whereby we get feed back on the divine order behind appearances.&#8221;</em></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;">I had a difficult time completing this review of Paul O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s book, not just for the reasons I wrote about in my last post &#8211; the usual of being so busy &#8211; but because I kept taking side trips to Paul&#8217;s web page, <strong>Tarot.com</strong>, and the links there. I thought of Paul O&#8217;Brien as an <em><strong>I Ching</strong></em> person. I&#8217;ve been out of touch focusing on my own <em><strong>I Ching</strong></em> work here so I enjoyed seeing all that he has been doing in the scope of divination systems.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;">Paul O&#8217;Brien started the web site, <strong>Tarot.com</strong>. This name is misleading for me because the site has pages about Astrology, Numerology, <em><strong>I Ching</strong></em>, Feng Shui, Love and a link for Psychics. Note that the category links included &#8220;Love&#8221; along with the other subjects, implying that Love is also a tool of divination. Come to think about it, I think it is and should be another book.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;">Paul O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s book, <strong><em>Divination</em></strong> is a good balance and adjunct to the website that contains pages on the systems that he writes about in the book. The book is an advertisement for the website and the website an advertisement for O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s book. At the end of this review I include a video of Paul O&#8217;Brien talking about why he wrote this book and he says that for himself better than I can.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;">The <strong>Tarot.com</strong> website is a commercial one with advertisements, links to buy various readings as well as divination tools to use. The book give us information, explanation and history of these divination systems. While I was familiar with more or less degrees of these various systems, <em><strong>I Ching</strong> </em>being my long time devotion, I learned more about the history of these other divination systems. I also learned about Paul O&#8217;Brien which I found of interest as well.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;">Since any one reading my comments here is doing so by means of a computer, you probably will find the chapter, <strong><em>&#8220;The Evolving Technology of Divination&#8221; </em></strong>of interest. The <em><strong>I Ching</strong></em> has been described as the first computer with its binary system. Since <em><strong>I Ching</strong></em> was the first book perhaps it was the first interactive tool as well. So it was fascinating to me that Paul was introduced to the <em><strong>I Ching</strong></em> as a young student at the same time he was introduced to computers which was in those early days of computing. How lucky for him! How lucky for us to have the perfect combination of skills and talent combined with a journey of the study of Buddhism and meditation including training in monasteries.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;">I also learned how Paul O&#8217;Brien developed that first<em> <strong>I Ching</strong></em> program,<em><strong> Synchronicity</strong></em>, that I used with my MAC in the early days of personal computers. If I recall correctly, his  program went viral and was copied a lot by the other Macintosh users. In those early days of the Macintosh and developing software, the fact that I could find a program on the <strong><em>I Ching</em> </strong>confirmed that this new found technology for me was awesome magic. I have Paul O&#8217;Brien to thank for his contribution to the magic.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;">The book, <em><strong>Divination</strong></em>, has 9 Chapters and  8 Appendices. The Introduction has a lot of information about the history of divination in general, and reminds us that the word divination derives from the Latin, <em>divinare,</em> meaning to<em> &#8220;to inspire by the divine.&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;"><em><strong>Chapter 1: Your Heart&#8217;s Desire is Your Destiny</strong></em> &#8211; This chapter title is another hook into the book for me. Being a Leo I have been run by my heart&#8217;s desires. Paul tells us about his experience with Buddhism and takes this subject into a deeper level than what one usually thinks of in terms of desire. This chapter explains desire from the Buddhist perspective and is an example of what I mean by the book being a balance to the <strong>Tarot.com</strong> web page, giving history and depth of understanding to the subject.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Chapter 2: Troubled Times Calls for Wisdom </strong>- A discussion of decision-making; developing wisdom; belief systems based on various religions; and a discussion on which religions supported cultivating wisdom based on the intuitive process of an inquiring mind rather than blindly following a doctrine.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Chapter 3: How Divination Systems Work</strong> &#8211; Discussion about quantum physics, Jung, Freud, Archetypes of <strong><em>I Ching</em>,</strong> Tarot, the Synchronicity principle and Jung&#8217;s contribution to it. O&#8217;Brien shares with us here his first inquiry to the <em><strong>I Ching</strong>,</em> the results being here for us all to enjoy in his work.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Chapter 4: Origins of Divination</strong> &#8211; Brief history of Astrology, <em><strong>I Ching,</strong></em> Numerology, Runes and Tarot.  I can&#8217;t resist including a quote from the section about Numerology: <em>&#8220;Pythagoras was the founder of Numerology and practiced it to divine the fates of individuals, predict the events of certain locations and use name changing as a means to alter destiny.&#8221; </em>Wow! I had no idea!</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Chapter 5: Enemies of Divination</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Chapter 6: The Gift of Prophecy—Divination in the Bible</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Chapter 7: Divination Practice Today</strong> &#8211; Advice on when and how to use divination; How to choose a Divination reader; Do-It-Yourself Divination discussion of using on-line readings or buying the <em><strong>I Ching</strong></em> book. How to Frame a Question is addressed. This is most important when consulting the <strong><em>I Ching</em> </strong>and true for any method of divination. This section also talks about creating your own ritual.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Chapter 8: The Evolving Technology of Divination </strong>- Begins with a picture of the Tarot card of the High Priestess, holding a laptop in her lap as she sits on her thrown (shown above.) I Love it! O&#8217;Brien tells us about developing his divination software as he was using divination. This chapter contains interesting history about the software industry as well as Paul&#8217;s involvement with it.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Chapter 9: Destiny, Fate and Creativity</strong> &#8211; Encompasses 3 subjects of particular interest to me. I have been studying and keeping a record of my dreams for the past 40 years, as long as I have been consulting the <em><strong>I Ching</strong></em>. Some of my dreams have been precognitive and the only way I know that is because I write them down. Having such dreams has caused a lot of speculation in my mind about the subject of fate. I think I&#8217;m running the show, and then I have cause to wonder a lot about how can I know something before it happens even when I don&#8217;t know I know. This is a subject for a book in itself. O&#8217;Brien discusses the difference between the terms fate and destiny and incorporates that with the use of divination.</span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;">The Appendices are an important part of the book.</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>A: Archetypes of Divination</strong> &#8211; Outlines of the systems of Numerology, <em><strong>I Ching</strong></em>, Tarot, Astrology and Runes.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>B: How to Give Yourself a Reading </strong>- Gives a brief description of &#8220;how to&#8221; for all the 5 Divination systems listed above with references of where to go for more in-depth information. This includes instructions for doing an <em><strong>I Ching </strong></em>reading by using the yarrow stalks as well as using the coins.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>C: Divination in the Bible </strong>-  Lists Verses Condemning Divination and Verses Supporting Divination.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>D: Tarot: The Shrink-in-the-Box</strong> &#8211; An article re-printed from a column in the Trends Journal, a financial investor newsletter.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>E: The Use of I-Ching, Tarot and Other Divination Tools for Everyday Life -</strong> An article by Deepak Chopra</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>F: Tarot and I-Ching for Relationships -</strong> An article by John Gray</span></p>
<h3><span style="color: #000000;">Bottom line:</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;"><em><strong>Divination: Sacred Tools for Reading the Mind of God</strong></em> has many illustrations and quotes from other sources. Each chapter is compact yet full of information and history. There are useful &#8220;cheat sheets&#8221; of the different divination systems. You will find the book of interest, whether you are new to the <strong>I Ching</strong> or any of the other divination practices described, or if, like myself, have been working with the<strong> I Ching</strong> for a long time.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;">You can get a free <strong>I Ching</strong> reading by going to <strong>Tarot.com</strong> and click on the <strong>I Ching</strong> tab. There are so many subjects to investigate on <strong>Tarot.com</strong> that while I didn&#8217;t look at everything, there was enough there to pleasantly distract me again from writing this review. I found there the following video of Paul O&#8217;Brien telling us his own views of why he wrote his book.</span></p>
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